Russian and US security services to work on solution to Snowden fate
** Looks like Putin wants to deal and get this problem resolved
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10153143/Russian-and-US-security-services-to-work-on-solution-to-Snowden-fate.html
Nikolai Patrushev, the head of Russia’s Security Council said on Monday that Presidents Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama had ordered Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s Federal Security Service, and Robert Mueller, the director of the FBI, to stay “in permanent contact” in an attempt to decide Edward Snowden’s fate.
Mr Snowden, a former CIA and US National Security Agency contractor, 30, is currently thought to be in a closed area of the transit and departures zone of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport after flying in there on June 23 from Hong Kong, where he leaked details of widespread surveillance by US security services of American citizens' emails and telephone calls.
Speaking on the Rossiya 24 channel, Mr Patrushev said: “Vladimir Putin has already expressed his thoughts about Snowden, as has US President Obama. Of course, we don’t have a solution that will satisfy both sides, so they [the presidents], have ordered Bortnikov, the director of the FSB, and Mueller, the director of the FBI, to be in permanent contact and find possible solutions.”
He added: “That said, I must underline that their task is not an easy one, because they must find a solution within the norms of international law. And today, at this moment, we cannot say that there is such a norm or a ready recipe.”
